Colossus By Design: Season 3 - Excerpt 53

[April 22, 2168]
[Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk, Sakhalin Island]
[Russia]
[Russia Mainland]

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Mechagodzilla II. The next iteration of Godzillasaur-inspired mechanical defenders conceptualized and partially built by the Bilusaludo.

Its sleek metallic shell shines and glistens amid the rubble and destroyed infrastructure of the Russian coastal city, a stark contrast compared to its more crudely mechanical predecessor. The mighty machine lets loose a mechanical roar that's quite different from the first Mechagodzilla, though its intentions remain the same: a final warning for its quarry to stand down lest they be targeted without mercy.

Unfortunately, said target happens to be the disfigured and mutated Gojira, daughter of Godzilla; their lineage has a tendency to never back down, and today is no exception.

The young Godzillasaur lumbers towards Mechagodzilla II with a steely but otherwise expressionless look to her face. As she starts to close in, the ports in the mechanical doppelganger's shoulders start to light up and activate; soon after, a barrage of paralyzer missiles is let loose from these batteries. Not a single missile misses their mark as they explode on contact with Gojira's chest and upper arms; small traces of the paralytic fluid payload can be made out from the detonations.

Despite this continuous assault, the princess of monsters is only slowed down; she evidently has a high level of pain tolerance and force of will.

Upon seeing that its paralyzer missile pods are proving ineffective, Mechagodzilla II ceases firing; some of the exhaust ports around its body can be observed visibly venting out heat and steam after its first attack. The mech unit now raises its arms and points them at its approaching target; a pair of industrial wires with specialized drill tips fly out from the gun ports in its arms. Even taking into account Gojira's impressive durability and stamina, these anchors still manage to easily dig into her hide, just above her thighs.

The disfigured monster roars out in pain, but this is just the beginning; the second incarnation of Mechagodzilla activates one of its most insidious weapons yet: shock anchors.

Without even making any activation motions, Mechagodzilla II sends powerful electrical currents down its anchoring wires and directly into Gojira's body, bypassing her otherwise highly resistant rock-like skin. This attack leaves the young Godzillasaur rooted to the spot and roaring in pain the entire time, minimizing the fallout damage that might have been produced from the uncontrolled clash between the tremendous amounts of Ki both titans wield.

Whilst this is going on, a pair of C.D.F. drone jets fly off in the direction that the Destroyer Imago went.


(Drone Jet A.I.): [COMMS] Commencing pursuit of secondary P.E.M.F. threat.

(Mechagodzilla II): Copy. Continuing subdual procedure of primary Kaiju threat.


The Bilusaludo's robotic defense unit continues to use its shock anchors to devastating effect against Gojira; she can't seem to do anything against this internal assault.

Suddenly, Mechagodzilla II's sensors start to detect activity from within its target's body; thermal, radioactive, and electromagnetic energy signatures, the telltale sign of an atomic breath attack. Sure enough, Gojira's exposed musculature, veins, and dorsal plates start to glow a faint purple colour; her lower jaw also splits into two mandibles. As predicted, the disfigured monster lets loose her purple stream of radioactive plasma straight at her mechanical opponent's face.

Mechagodzilla II counters this with its Mega-Buster ULT laser; the two streams of energy meet in the middle, resulting in another of the infamous beam battles monsters with ranged attacks often engage in.

Despite also sending as much voltage as it possibly can without risking damage to shock anchor function, the Bilusaludo mech fails to even slightly throw Gojira's plasma stream off balance in their beam struggle. In fact, the Mechagodzilla unit is started to overheat immensely, much more than its weapon usage should normally produce; at the same time, Gojira seems to be gaining resistance against its shock anchors. The reason behind this anomaly becomes clear enough upon further sensory analysis; the mutated Godzillasaur has somehow adapted some of her internal organs to convert the buildup of voltage in her body into heat energy to be sent back down the wires.

Coinciding with this heat buildup is Mechagodzilla II starting to lose ground in the beam struggle; soon enough, the overheating problem proves to be too much for its systems to handle, resulting in the mech unit's weapons completely malfunctioning.

The robotic doppelganger's shock anchors are ripped out from their winches, and the Mega-Buster loses power entirely; as expected, Gojira's atomic breath completely engulfs Mechagodzilla II's head.

Although its thermal diffusion layering still manages to absorb most of the damage from the attack, some sparks still fly out, indicating that the mech unit has taken damage from its opponent's heat beam. Gojira lets up on her atomic breath so that she can see just what she did to her enemy; she closes her mouth and bares her teeth a bit, with the faintest hint of a smile appearing at the sides of her mouth. Mechagodzilla II's eyes appear to have been heavily damaged by her attack; one of them has its light blinking irregularly, whilst the other has gone entirely dark.


(Cmdr. Galu-gu): [COMMS] Mechagodzilla II, respond! Dammit, respond!


The Bilusaludo's comms hail falls on deaf ears, as Mechagodzilla II is unmoving; the exhaust ports dotted around it are still venting all of the boiling hot steam that has built up within its body due to Gojira's energy conversion and redirection, leaving the mech unit unable to properly defend itself as it attempts to regain combat functionality.

The princess of monsters seems to sense this vulnerability and moves in to striking range for melee combat. The young Godzillasaur claws and headbutts her mechanical doppelganger with reckless abandon, easily scratching and knocking around the helpless robot; even though Mechagodzilla II is still able to somewhat move and respond, its movements don't have much strength to them and are easily countered by the apparently physical superiority of the daughter of Godzilla. With one mighty if a bit clumsy shove, Gojira sends Mechagodzilla II stumbling backwards into a building.

The mechanical titan crashes into the building hard, hard enough that some of its Ki is sent outwards from its back; this brief leakage of Ki spills into the same building that it crashed into and acts almost like a pinball bumper, sending the Bilusaludo robot forwards. Before it falls down flat on its face, Gojira grabs Mechagodzilla II by its head. The disfigured young monster then lifts with all her strength, eventually carrying the robot perfectly horizontal with her proportionally tiny arms.

She then gives a mighty toss and lets the second Mechagodzilla incarnation fly off; it crashes through several large skyscrapers, only coming to a stop upon hitting the fifth building. The building collapses on top of Mechagodzilla II, and the mech unit loses power soon after; the force of Gojira's throw was likely the reason for most of its damage, rather than the buildings it collided with.

The princess of monsters roars into the sky to signify her victory. Afterwards, she turns towards the direction where the Destroyer Imago and the drone fighters headed off to and starts to follow this path.

Once Gojira has left the immediate area, something curious happens.

A hooded figure steps out from the shadow that Mechagodzilla II's defeated but still intact body cast on the ground; she couldn't have possibly come out from there under normal physical laws.


(Mary Stoker): Hey, Savage, I'm here now.

(Vandal Savage): [COMMS] How does it look?

(Mary Stoker): I think we'll need to reevaluate just what kind of firepower we hope to bring to bear.